Fauré: La Bonne Chanson and Other Songs album review – the ecstasy of unbuttoned love
The later, string-quintet version of Fauré’s song cycle, celebrating his affection for the married Emma Bardac, is sung and played with beauty and finesse
Artists have the power to stand up for truth, says Edinburgh festival director
Performers can fight cynicism in age of Trump, says Nicola Benedetti as she announces 2025 programme
Levit/Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer review – edgy Prokofiev baffles and compels
Under Iván Fischer’s baton, clarinettist Ákos Ács and pianist Igor Levit guided the orchestra to hurtling heights – buzzing speaker notwithstanding
Czech Phil/Bychkov review – fiendish Mozart duo contrasts with gargantuan Mahler
The Labèque sisters gave an uncannily composite performance of Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos, then chief conductor Semyon Bychkov took the Czech Philharmonic through a mighty rendering of Mahler’s Fifth
L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato review – dazzling opening to London Handel festival
Jonathan Cohen and his crack baroque ensemble Arcangelo seized upon the colourful pastoral with relish, lighting up Handel’s own parish church
Abuse by Guildhall tutor in 1980s left me in despair, says opera singer
Idit Arad calls for better protection for music students as London college admits failing in its duty of care to her
The week in classical: The Makropulos Affair; Uprising – review
Orla Boylan captivates in Olivia Fuchs’s masterly Scottish Opera Janáček. And Jonathan Dove’s rousing new community opera puts down firm roots
Dunedin Consort/Butt review – A bog, but not standard as Fennessy’s new cantata premieres
Inspired by the ancient Faddan More Psalter unearthed after 1,000 years, the Dunedin Consort’s commission was direct and timeless in an utterly convincing way
Mozart: Serenades; Gran Partita review – bright tones and period-instrument agility
The Gran Partita is a supreme instrumental masterpiece and Baldeyrou and his ensemble do it full justice in this first disc of a Mozart series
Organised Delirium: Piano Sonatas by Boulez, Shostakovich, Bartók and Eisler album review – coruscating and exceptional
Stefanovich brings total mastery, athleticism and power to her recordings of Boulez’s second sonata, and other 20th-century piano works
LPO/Guggeis review – Wagner and Strauss touches both body and soul
Renée Fleming brought her communicative gifts to Strauss’s Four Last Songs in a programme dominated by Wagner. Making his LPO debut, Thomas Guggeis was an urgent presence
‘The palace called and I heard myself saying yes’: how Errollyn Wallen went from Top of the Pops to Master of the King’s Music
Written off in her youth, the unstoppable Belize-born musician has overcome indifference, mockery and abuse to become one of Britain’s most acclaimed composers. You have to hang onto your own worth, she says
Colin Tilney obituary
Harpsichordist who recorded the instrument’s major works and encouraged new pieces for early keyboards
Uprising review – ravishingly sung opera rails against older generation destroying the planet
Teenage climate activist Lola struggles with school and family, while damaged nature is given its own voice
Post your questions for composer Steve Reich
As the 88-year-old master of minimalist composition releases a career-spanning 27-disc box set, he will take on your questions about his life and work